One of Tampa’s toughest rock bands is calling it quits indefinitely, but not before putting out a new album and playing what’s sure to be a wild release show at a local VFW hall.

Clang!’s had a grip on Bay area fans of krauty, hard-hitting, headbang-ready experimental art-pop for five years, and it continues that tradition on New Feel Now.

The 12-track outing is a representation of how far the band has come since its 2019 debut Whac-A-Mole, and it finds Clang! once again under the watchful ear of engineer Patrick Brady, who’s mixed Emily Jones’ punishing bass, Shellac-and Jesus Lizard-loving riffs from Brian Shields, plus manic drumming from Andrew Goding into what’s possibly the best 25-minutes of rock and roll to come out of Tampa this year.

The mix hits especially hard on “Same Dreams,” an early-album highlight where Clang! squeezes all the best things about the band into a four-minute collage that ends with the freaky, unruly saxophone of Zachary Hickerson.

Emo band Charlie opens the show along with Afterworld, the goth-metal electro project of lifelong Tampeño Carson Cox and former Creative Loafing Tampa Bay staffer Justin Garcia.

There’s technically no-cover to see Clang! at Tampa’s American Legion Post 111 on Saturday, Nov. 4, but an $8 donation is requested at the door.

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This article appears in Oct 26 – Nov 1, 2023.